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if the rest of the government isn't going to follow along, india's government is very constricted in many ways from what it can do. so unfortunately this hasn't been made a big case, a big issue of yet so far but i actually think that this could be the time. i think that this case could give an opening. >> well, news from singapore of the young woman's death after the gang rape broke during the middle of the night in the india. so indians in their millions will awake to the news that the woman has died. have we crossed a threshold. is this an issue that simply can't be put back in the bottle and forgotten? >> well, you know, i think that probably when it comes to the street protest the death, the tragic death of this woman is going through means the protest will peak today and it's possible that after that the protests will dribble off and you know this case may be forgotten. this woman's name may stop being the top of the news. but i think that this case is a watershed moment. i think it can be a watershed moment. there are many other cases in india of other social issues where civi
if the rest of the government isn't going to follow along, india's government is very constricted in many ways from what it can do. so unfortunately this hasn't been made a big case, a big issue of yet so far but i actually think that this could be the time. i think that this case could give an opening. >> well, news from singapore of the young woman's death after the gang rape broke during the middle of the night in the india. so indians in their millions will awake to the news that the...
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the government has responded with what many governments often respond to in crisis management situation commissions and inquiry emotions are running very high and the call for capital punishment is an expression of the public outrage and you hear that a lot. and the government is said to be considering that. now of course the critics say, well, look this is not what's not needed here is greater punishment. but what is needed is better investigative and prosecutorial ca pace that is what will help the problem. but while there was this need, you know for policing reforms and better forensic and more efficient criminal justice system, the contours of the debate ray are coming down this to this. how do we change attitudes toward women. i mean indian women complain about a mentality that springs are from centuries of tradition. of defining women as objects and being subject ated. and young men say the women are achb seen as the repository of the family honor. so if the women is the victim of a sexual assault oftentimes she sown as having been dishonored the family rather than the r5i7ist who
the government has responded with what many governments often respond to in crisis management situation commissions and inquiry emotions are running very high and the call for capital punishment is an expression of the public outrage and you hear that a lot. and the government is said to be considering that. now of course the critics say, well, look this is not what's not needed here is greater punishment. but what is needed is better investigative and prosecutorial ca pace that is what will...
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the government has responded with what many governments often respond to in crisis managementituation, commissionsndnquy, emotions are running very high and the call for capital punishment is an expression of the public outrage and you hear that a lot. and the government is said to be considering that. now of course the critics say, well, look, this is not, what's not needed here is greater punishment. but what is needed is better investigative and prosecutorial ca pace, that is what will help the problem. but while there was this need, you know, for policing reforms and better forensic andore effientcrimal justice system, the contours of the debate, ray, are coming down this to this. how do we change attitudes toward women. i mean indian women complain about a mentality that springs are from centuries of tradition. of defining women as objects and being subject ated. and young men say the women are achb seen as the repository of the family honor. so if the women is the victim of a sexual assault, oftentimes she sown as having been dishonored the family rather than the r5i7ist who has
the government has responded with what many governments often respond to in crisis managementituation, commissionsndnquy, emotions are running very high and the call for capital punishment is an expression of the public outrage and you hear that a lot. and the government is said to be considering that. now of course the critics say, well, look, this is not, what's not needed here is greater punishment. but what is needed is better investigative and prosecutorial ca pace, that is what will help...
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instead of helped by the government. people who live in remote villages and valleys often find themselves shaken down for bribes by police officers instead of being helped by the police officer, being forced to pay judges to hear cases as opposed to being, expecting that they will get impartial and speedy justice. the government just doesn't work for the people there, unfortunately. >> host: kelly, cottage grove oregon please go ahead with your question or comment for our author, rajiv chandrasekeran. >> caller: hello. i just want to say thank you. i've been wondering about, for a long time, it's like are just talking yesterday with someone, if we took all the money that we've been spending on the war and just help the people. of course, on one person's ideaf help is different. build nice houses, excellent -- the whole nine yards. probably would've come out saving a lot of money. but apparently that's not what they wanted. i just want to say thank you. you've answered a lot of questions in the back of my head you don't r
instead of helped by the government. people who live in remote villages and valleys often find themselves shaken down for bribes by police officers instead of being helped by the police officer, being forced to pay judges to hear cases as opposed to being, expecting that they will get impartial and speedy justice. the government just doesn't work for the people there, unfortunately. >> host: kelly, cottage grove oregon please go ahead with your question or comment for our author, rajiv...
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do we need to do from the whole of government standpoint? some of the other departments are being hit harder. state department, for example. >> this is admittedly a weakness of the report. our mandate was to only look at the defense budget. we should be looking at the whole international affairs budget because we have to take a whole of government approach to solving these international problems. the military is not particularly good at some things, where diplomacy or development aid would be much more help. so i would like to see an integrated budget. that's not going to happen. the congress won't allow to the happen. but at least in our thinking, in the administration's thinking, they could pool resources and look at trade- offs between defense and state. >> barry, thanks very much. at least that's a hope for to 13. >> i hope. so thank you very much. >> coming up, how the pentagon and intelligence agencies are exploiting social media. you're watching "this week in defense news." >>> when pentagon officials talk about intelligence surveilla
do we need to do from the whole of government standpoint? some of the other departments are being hit harder. state department, for example. >> this is admittedly a weakness of the report. our mandate was to only look at the defense budget. we should be looking at the whole international affairs budget because we have to take a whole of government approach to solving these international problems. the military is not particularly good at some things, where diplomacy or development aid...
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well, the government, the people who needs the government, government help in a world where other countries are subsidizing multinational corporations are precisely the small and medium sized businesses so there's a number of programs across the government that help and are disiebed to help small and heed yum sized businesses, the partnership, the export promotion agencies, a number of others that i describe in the book, and i think that funding them and coming to a bipartisan consensus that we have to work with them, the small and medium sized businesses, can do the one step in offsetting the disadvantage they are under competing with large companies. >> hi. in the absence of bipartisan agreement of leadership as some of the things you want government to do, it seems the tax code is an instrument for encouraging or aiding american manufacturing or american industry, american private sector interests so what is the appropriate role of the tax code in all of this? is this an efficient way to do things, or how would you transform the tax code to do this? >> a great question. there's two tax p
well, the government, the people who needs the government, government help in a world where other countries are subsidizing multinational corporations are precisely the small and medium sized businesses so there's a number of programs across the government that help and are disiebed to help small and heed yum sized businesses, the partnership, the export promotion agencies, a number of others that i describe in the book, and i think that funding them and coming to a bipartisan consensus that we...
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about a future of leisure society for working americans plus it's been less than two years but a new government in japan is already forgotten all the lessons learned from the fukushima nuclear crisis as millions of tons of radioactive debris drifts at this moment for the united states is west coast i know what the japanese government is now doing if you put the entire world in danger and later in the show we'll have your take my take a live segment your chance to call in and ask a question share your thoughts live on the air. you need to know this president obama is back in washington d.c. senators back in washington d.c. the speaker john boehner and the rest of the republicans in the house are still on vacation here is democratic senate majority leader harry reid on the floor of the sun today warning that it looks like the nation is going over the cliff. if we go over the cliff and it looks like that's where we're headed as president the house of representatives as we speak with four days left after today before the first year aren't here with the speaker having told them they'll have you know
about a future of leisure society for working americans plus it's been less than two years but a new government in japan is already forgotten all the lessons learned from the fukushima nuclear crisis as millions of tons of radioactive debris drifts at this moment for the united states is west coast i know what the japanese government is now doing if you put the entire world in danger and later in the show we'll have your take my take a live segment your chance to call in and ask a question...
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the government bought them back. after a certain date if they were in your home, you were arrested. they have had a decrease in crime and suicide, which is an interesting development. it seems to me, you either have to go that route, which you cannot in the u.s. -- gun ownership in australia was 5% of households. gallup has shown is 47% here. we have the second amendment and the hisry back to washington. given that we are a different culture, the kinds of laws that we pass are almost always an effective as a result, because there are00 million weapons out there today. unless you recall them the way that australia did, and we cannot do that -- you would have a reservoir that would last 100 years. >> you can imagine what would happen. there would be an insurrection. >> you do not have to permit guns -- and i understand they are already there -- but you do not simply not do something because it is already a problem. right now>> you can imagine whad happen. there would be an insurrection. , we allowed guns that are made specifically to injured in the most grievous way and the fastest wa
the government bought them back. after a certain date if they were in your home, you were arrested. they have had a decrease in crime and suicide, which is an interesting development. it seems to me, you either have to go that route, which you cannot in the u.s. -- gun ownership in australia was 5% of households. gallup has shown is 47% here. we have the second amendment and the hisry back to washington. given that we are a different culture, the kinds of laws that we pass are almost always an...
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. >> how are the talks progressing and what about reduction in government spending? we still have the looming 16 trillion plus budget deficit. remember that? and the politicians they are taking their time on that as well. we will ask house budget committee member south carolina republican congressman when joins us live later this hour. he is worried that the talks have not addressed spending. so we have to address that. >> breaking news now in the benghazi terror attacks in libya. president obama this morning told "meet the press" the u.s. now has some "very good leads" about who carried out the deadly strike. >> there was sloppiness, not intentional in terms of how we secure embassies in areas where you essentially don't have governments that have a lot of capacity to protect the embassies. so we are are doing a thorough review. not only will we implement all of the recommendations that were made but we will try to do more than that. with respect to who carried it out, that is an ongoing investigation. the fbi has sent individuals to libya repeatedly. we have some v
. >> how are the talks progressing and what about reduction in government spending? we still have the looming 16 trillion plus budget deficit. remember that? and the politicians they are taking their time on that as well. we will ask house budget committee member south carolina republican congressman when joins us live later this hour. he is worried that the talks have not addressed spending. so we have to address that. >> breaking news now in the benghazi terror attacks in libya....
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backed document when strong support from the public but deep divisions remain between opposition and government supporters over the course the country's taking. israel approves twelve hundred more settler homes in east jerusalem the expansion coming despite international condemnation and warnings over the peace process with the palestinians. as christmas presents are under wraps across the world the jury's out on whether the eurozone leaders behaved well enough for a sense that answered their wishes will brussels sprout wonders or not our team tries to figure out what's in the bag for europe. three am in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r t our top story this hour official results confirm that egypt's new constitution is passed the national referendum winning a hair less than sixty four percent of the vote the country's electoral commission's announce the final tally after investigations into fraud egypt's witnessed weeks of violence with a two stage referendum sowing deep divisions between supporters and opponents of the country's president gyptian president mahmoud morsi
backed document when strong support from the public but deep divisions remain between opposition and government supporters over the course the country's taking. israel approves twelve hundred more settler homes in east jerusalem the expansion coming despite international condemnation and warnings over the peace process with the palestinians. as christmas presents are under wraps across the world the jury's out on whether the eurozone leaders behaved well enough for a sense that answered their...
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. >> reporter: for more and more americans, the fiscal cliff is being viewed as a failure of government. >> they are on vacation, doing whatever they are doing. they don't care. >> i just don't think they will ever come to an agreement. both parties are so far apart that there is no common ground. >> reporter: if you make between 50-60,000 deal, taxes go up $92 per bye-weekly pay check. most employers will wait for the irs and will continue to deduct at the current rate. >> supposed to be pub luck servants and we can't get a compromise going. what is the right term? >> a lot of times it seems you are not being represented. you have interests over riding the people's concerns. that is an example of what happens in congress. >> the lowest income folks' check will shrink by 3%. top earners 6%. that says nothing of loss deductions or other unknowns. >> political parties need to stop looking at their platforms and look at what is best for americas. >> reporter: coming at 6:00 p.m., the anger factor. consumer editor tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> on wall street today stocks fell for a fo
. >> reporter: for more and more americans, the fiscal cliff is being viewed as a failure of government. >> they are on vacation, doing whatever they are doing. they don't care. >> i just don't think they will ever come to an agreement. both parties are so far apart that there is no common ground. >> reporter: if you make between 50-60,000 deal, taxes go up $92 per bye-weekly pay check. most employers will wait for the irs and will continue to deduct at the current rate....
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difficult goal which is eradicating these small groups that seek to create overreactions on the part of governments. >> one of the reasons we're in so much trouble in afghanistan is because we went well beyond our mission. we accomplished the mission, but we took our eye off the ball when we intervened, invaded iraq and occupied iraq. and now twelve years later we're not sure what our mission is. >> the iraq war cost more than the war in vietnam, for example, and we spend trillions of dollars once all the, the needs of veterans and service members, over two million who were deployed to iraq and afghanistan since 9/11, are met in perpetuity and their families. and so, so it's an incredibly costly thing. >> and a major milestone for the u.s. effort in afghanistan, the war is now entering its twelfth year, making it the longest running war in our nation's history. >> now as the wars in iraq and afghanistan come to a close, a frail economic climate at home has left many americans wanting to keep the troops home for good. >> the pentagon came out with new defense guidance in january 2012, which reflecte
difficult goal which is eradicating these small groups that seek to create overreactions on the part of governments. >> one of the reasons we're in so much trouble in afghanistan is because we went well beyond our mission. we accomplished the mission, but we took our eye off the ball when we intervened, invaded iraq and occupied iraq. and now twelve years later we're not sure what our mission is. >> the iraq war cost more than the war in vietnam, for example, and we spend trillions...
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back document when the strong support from the public but deep divisions remain between opposition and government supporters over the course of the country's taken. israel approves twelve hundred more settler homes in east jerusalem the expansion coming despite international condemnation and warnings over the peace process with the palestinians. and as christmas presents are unwrapped across the world the jury's out on whether euro zone leaders behaved well enough for santa to answer their wishes will brussels sprout wonders or not r.t. tries to figure out what's in the bag for you. seven am in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on our t.v. our top story it's been confirmed that egypt's new constitution has been passed with a majority sixty three point eight percent voting yes opponents have vowed to kin tinu the fight against adopting the islamist leaning charter though egypt's witnessed weeks of violence with a two stage referendum a sowing deep division between supporters and opponents of the country's president mohamed morsi morsi says an act in the new constitution quickly wi
back document when the strong support from the public but deep divisions remain between opposition and government supporters over the course of the country's taken. israel approves twelve hundred more settler homes in east jerusalem the expansion coming despite international condemnation and warnings over the peace process with the palestinians. and as christmas presents are unwrapped across the world the jury's out on whether euro zone leaders behaved well enough for santa to answer their...
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as being the solution to our problems and i certainly don't promote the government as the solution for everything i see we do have a difference in opinion here do away with the i arose we need to end these wars for oil for an it is something that should stop climate change is here and it's happening to the united states should have should be the beacon on the hill. now is just oliver jr in canada gary johnson agree party candidate jill stein have the opportunity to go head to head in the second round of third party debates just fight those third party candidates and others like rocky anderson and virgil goode it appears the u.s. is still very much locked in a two party system now like the other networks we hosted several hours of election night coverage and we tried our best to bring you something different we took a look at how the two parties might not be so different after all. to a lot of americans there just isn't much of a difference between two parties anymore and. you're ok you're already ahead of all the other corporate news outlets to call the winners there's a large presiden
as being the solution to our problems and i certainly don't promote the government as the solution for everything i see we do have a difference in opinion here do away with the i arose we need to end these wars for oil for an it is something that should stop climate change is here and it's happening to the united states should have should be the beacon on the hill. now is just oliver jr in canada gary johnson agree party candidate jill stein have the opportunity to go head to head in the second...
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they decided emergency unemployment would be by the federal government. since the economy is still struggling they are looking at renewing this. this is new spending in the bill. there is virtually no spending. they got rid of this tweaking the tax code. that is something that a lot of house republicans probably won't like. but at this point in the game i think they have to pass it. >> one of the increases is social security payroll tax increase. owe b president obama was talking about letting that cut to lapse. it raises income tax for people of all levels on the social security tax to 6.2 percent which adds up to a lot of money for a family. that's a big tax increase. >> the payroll tax holiday is going to effect folks. this is a dedicated tax that goes to fund social security. when they took the 2 percent out of social security we were funding the program through deficit spending. you probably shouldn't be continuing this temporary program for another year when social security has plenty of fiscal challenge of its own. >> you sport that move to let tha
they decided emergency unemployment would be by the federal government. since the economy is still struggling they are looking at renewing this. this is new spending in the bill. there is virtually no spending. they got rid of this tweaking the tax code. that is something that a lot of house republicans probably won't like. but at this point in the game i think they have to pass it. >> one of the increases is social security payroll tax increase. owe b president obama was talking about...
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it's equal branchings of government. they control two-thirds and it takes three to tango, the senate, white hussein. >> eric: terrific debate. >> heather: who is leading in the tango, that's what we don't know. congressional leaders are trying to come up with that deal, with less than two days before massive tax hikes and spending cuts kick in and small businesses are already being affected. companies have no idea how much more they are going to owe uncle sam next year. that is affecting how they are doing business right now. we have those details from the new york city newsroom. >> reporter: many small, owners are hesitating to expand, for fear their bottom line will suffer as the fiscal cliff looms and congress can't seem to compromise. the owner of an internet marketing company is concerned that the change in tax rates will hurt his ability to hire. he says the uncertainty is making him run his business defensively, making decisions based on business already coming in because he can't risk losing it all. >> knowing th
it's equal branchings of government. they control two-thirds and it takes three to tango, the senate, white hussein. >> eric: terrific debate. >> heather: who is leading in the tango, that's what we don't know. congressional leaders are trying to come up with that deal, with less than two days before massive tax hikes and spending cuts kick in and small businesses are already being affected. companies have no idea how much more they are going to owe uncle sam next year. that is...
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they're here and they want to really quite frankly dismantle government. i think that's what you have seen. you know, an effort by the far right, the tea party republicans, to obstruct and stop everything that we could move forward to, one, reduce the deficit, two, create jobs, three, protect medicare, social security, medicaid, and, four, to create the american dream for all. you've seen this obstructionist congress do that. so, yes, we need a full debate so the american people can see who is where, who is doing what, who values the 98%, who supports oil subsidies for the oil companies versus who supports medicare and social security for our senior citizens, who supports investments in our job creation and infrastructure versus who supports continuing profits for the 1%. yeah, we need a full debate so the american people will see what is exactly taking place in congress. >> california congresswoman barbara lee, happy new year. thanks for coming on a. >> thank you. >> a deal has been reached to avert going over the so-called milk cliff but the threat of $8
they're here and they want to really quite frankly dismantle government. i think that's what you have seen. you know, an effort by the far right, the tea party republicans, to obstruct and stop everything that we could move forward to, one, reduce the deficit, two, create jobs, three, protect medicare, social security, medicaid, and, four, to create the american dream for all. you've seen this obstructionist congress do that. so, yes, we need a full debate so the american people can see who is...
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government scaring presidents because they have separate information and it's the same time they they've been battered they've lost the pentagon has taken over a lot of the old cia activities with and jaison joint special operations command it's become almost an equivalent to the cia and visible army. you ask about w w it was a nightmare for me and personally as a documentary that we use we get to an untold history but mr bush jr was the ultimate everything that could go wrong could go wrong after two thousand it was him everything that happened to it two thousand and eleven was misinterpreted and rendered bigger and more hysterical but it's still he was part of a process that had seemed to have been accelerating anyway the process of militarizing the plan bush did it badly obama does it a lot better. so the movie that you made that you say i was too sympathetic to i was never sympathetic to i was empathetic the difference dramatist i am a drum it's in that case i'm not making a documentary i did. the movie in which we walk in his shoes we understand how this not a very deep thinking man
government scaring presidents because they have separate information and it's the same time they they've been battered they've lost the pentagon has taken over a lot of the old cia activities with and jaison joint special operations command it's become almost an equivalent to the cia and visible army. you ask about w w it was a nightmare for me and personally as a documentary that we use we get to an untold history but mr bush jr was the ultimate everything that could go wrong could go wrong...
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how do you feel looking back twenty five years later at the relationship between wall street and our government. don't get me started you know of my father was in wall street so i grew up republican conservative in new york city and my life and underwent a lot of changes and by the time i was thirty five forty years old i was rethinking everything and i had a chance to go back and visits my dad's world of wall street from that i knew from the fifty's and sixty's but it completely changed in the eighty's and there was a new breed of banker investment trader shark that had come into the pool and was devouring some of the smaller fish the emphasis being on money not on serving the client not on helping the economy gear is getting it all you know you could for yourself. and that gene. it was self evident there was a self destructive behavior about wall street the laws started to deregulate the computers brought on a new speed and volume so gordon gekko was a conglomeration of people that we met and michael douglas portrayed it was slick charming and apparently it attracted a lot of young people to
how do you feel looking back twenty five years later at the relationship between wall street and our government. don't get me started you know of my father was in wall street so i grew up republican conservative in new york city and my life and underwent a lot of changes and by the time i was thirty five forty years old i was rethinking everything and i had a chance to go back and visits my dad's world of wall street from that i knew from the fifty's and sixty's but it completely changed in the...
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many government offices are closed. financial markets are also closing early as well as some post offices. "the hobbit" top to the box office again for the second straight weekend. >> the baltimore ravens snapped a three-game losing streak. joe flacco threw three touchdown passes in the first half and the final score was 33-14 and the ravens wrap up the regular season sunday against the cincinnati bengals. the new york giants made a lot of help if they want to make the playoffs. >> looking to the end zone -- it is a touchdown. >> rookie robert griffin iii threw two touchdown passes to lead the redskins to a 27-20 win. >> they let a 14-point third quarter lead get away but they will prepare for sunday night with the dallas cowboys for the nfc east division title. and a spot in the playoffs. there is a lot of stop writing on sunday. we still have another half an hour. >> coming up, bundle up if you're heading out early on this christmas eve. you were born an original. there's a health company that can help you stay that w
many government offices are closed. financial markets are also closing early as well as some post offices. "the hobbit" top to the box office again for the second straight weekend. >> the baltimore ravens snapped a three-game losing streak. joe flacco threw three touchdown passes in the first half and the final score was 33-14 and the ravens wrap up the regular season sunday against the cincinnati bengals. the new york giants made a lot of help if they want to make the playoffs....
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that is up to the government and the choices the government makes for the first weeks or month or two at least. for instance, the irs, the internal revenue service can decide what to do about how they treat the tax increase. the agency could delay increasing the amount it withholds from your paycheck each week assuming congress would reach a deal. that way you wouldn't notice the tax increase before it turned around. if it didn't get reversed, you're going to get quite a bill from the taxman. also if we go over the cliff, and the spending cuts begin to take hold, the various agencies of the federal government can consider putting employees on furlough. meaning they take unpaid days off. that's considered a better alternative than layoffs, if we don't get a deal quickly, the furloughs will have to become layoffs, that will mean real pain. >>> the great question is how quickly that pain will begin. would it hurt the real economy before we get a deal? or would the prospect of pain create such pressure, would congress change course before we feel it. the strategy of the folks who want to
that is up to the government and the choices the government makes for the first weeks or month or two at least. for instance, the irs, the internal revenue service can decide what to do about how they treat the tax increase. the agency could delay increasing the amount it withholds from your paycheck each week assuming congress would reach a deal. that way you wouldn't notice the tax increase before it turned around. if it didn't get reversed, you're going to get quite a bill from the taxman....
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based on an ideology that calls on government to be as small as possible. its roots are as old as american politics, but the philosophies main spokesman is this man, grover norquist, president of americans for tax reform. his pledge signed by almost all republicans in congress forbid signatories from raising taxes ever under any circumstances. things come to ahead in the summer of 2011. they demand they reduce deficit as a condition for raising the debt ceiling. without a deal shs the u.s. would lose its ability to borrow money. republicans and democrats deploy tactics that shut down the government and ultimately cost america its aaa credit raid raiting for the first time in history. in a last-minute compromise, both sides agree to a trillion dollars in spending cuts up front and another $1.2 trillion in cuts to be decided by a special super committee. but a poison pill was attached. if the super committee can't reach a deal, automatic across-the-board cuts known as the sequester would go into effect starting january 2013. at the exact moment when the bush
based on an ideology that calls on government to be as small as possible. its roots are as old as american politics, but the philosophies main spokesman is this man, grover norquist, president of americans for tax reform. his pledge signed by almost all republicans in congress forbid signatories from raising taxes ever under any circumstances. things come to ahead in the summer of 2011. they demand they reduce deficit as a condition for raising the debt ceiling. without a deal shs the u.s....
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i've always regarded the cia as a criminal organization of sort like a mafia operating inside the us government scaring presidents because they have separated from it they've lost the pentagon is taking over a lot of the old cia. special operations command has become almost an equivalent to the cia invisible army. for me and personally as a documentary that we use we get to an untold history. junior. everything that could go wrong could go wrong after two things but the two of two thousand and eleven was missed. the movie that you made that you say i was too sympathetic to i was never sympathetic to i was empathetic the difference just dramatist i am a dramatists in that case i'm not making a documentary i did a movie in which we walk in his shoes we understand how this not a very deep thinking man who resembles harry truman in my mind a bit becomes president because he's the son of a president and his drives are very simple to me and i think there's a human in the film at the same time a little bit of heart quite a bit of heart but it's not because i like him. thank you for explaining i'll be
i've always regarded the cia as a criminal organization of sort like a mafia operating inside the us government scaring presidents because they have separated from it they've lost the pentagon is taking over a lot of the old cia. special operations command has become almost an equivalent to the cia invisible army. for me and personally as a documentary that we use we get to an untold history. junior. everything that could go wrong could go wrong after two things but the two of two thousand and...
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the ones who are pushing this, i might point out, basically want to have a 51-vote rule be the governing principle. most of them honestly have never been in the minority. those who have been in both majority and minority are the most reluctant to see this. so the majority leader senator reid feels very strongly the frustration. we understand that frustration. and there is the possibility that on january 3, the united states senate -- then a parliamentarian -- would overrule and it would require 51 votes to change the votes of the senate. that, my friends, would be a disaster leading to the destruction of the unique aspect of the united states senate as envisioned by our founding fathers. i also want to point out, i think that senator rudman -- senator levin described very well bringing up legislation and all of that with the hand out here. but i also want to point out that the practices of the senate have been abused. senators now can call from their home state and stop progress on the floor of the senate. that cannot happen anymore. that cannot happen. if a senator was to block legislat
the ones who are pushing this, i might point out, basically want to have a 51-vote rule be the governing principle. most of them honestly have never been in the minority. those who have been in both majority and minority are the most reluctant to see this. so the majority leader senator reid feels very strongly the frustration. we understand that frustration. and there is the possibility that on january 3, the united states senate -- then a parliamentarian -- would overrule and it would require...
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government. what do you think about that? doesn't a leader have to be a good manager? >> [inaudible] >> i can understand why they do spend i think is probably the first military in history and a while the harvard -. [inaudible] leaders have to be managers but they have to be leaders for most. and one way you laid is to give subordinates responsibility, but then execute. the problem is if you don't have an organization that optimizes for confidence, you have to micromanage, especially if you can't remove families. so you see the philosophy, commanders are on six-month tours. a lot of them are going through quicker. i remember reading one of the cup is going through five commanders in seven months late in the vietnam war. and if you don't trust your subordinates you hover over them, sometimes literally and helicopters. you have an organization that goes towards mediocrity and stalemate in another way. everybody does it one year tour and do something i made progress on my two or. it's a little different if you're there for three, five or seven years or you are therefore t
government. what do you think about that? doesn't a leader have to be a good manager? >> [inaudible] >> i can understand why they do spend i think is probably the first military in history and a while the harvard -. [inaudible] leaders have to be managers but they have to be leaders for most. and one way you laid is to give subordinates responsibility, but then execute. the problem is if you don't have an organization that optimizes for confidence, you have to micromanage,...
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it would lead to sequestration across the board government cuts. the planning has already begun for temporary layoffs. civilian furloughs could impact up to 800,000 workers. >> it feels like a punch in numbers gut. >> she works with the faa. >> a lot of uneasiness, nobody knows what things will happen. everyone is nervous. >> it is really having an impact on everyone. >> she is a server in pentagon city. 70 or 80% of customers come from the pentagon. >> it is affecting every level it is scary. what am i going to do? >> that is a question a lot of people are asking. defense companies in this region at a deadly opposed sequestration. -- adamantly opposed to sequestration. >> we're monitoring all of the action and reaction on capitol hill to the news there will not be a vote tonight. coming up at 5:30, how going over the fiscal cliff focus that to -- affect small businesses. >> this is coming out of bristow. a police officer has been killed in a serious crash. we were over the accident that involved a police motorcycle. what is the latest? >> a horrib
it would lead to sequestration across the board government cuts. the planning has already begun for temporary layoffs. civilian furloughs could impact up to 800,000 workers. >> it feels like a punch in numbers gut. >> she works with the faa. >> a lot of uneasiness, nobody knows what things will happen. everyone is nervous. >> it is really having an impact on everyone. >> she is a server in pentagon city. 70 or 80% of customers come from the pentagon. >> it is...
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it's not just the tax hikes that are scheduled to hit it's big cuts in government spending as well. 2013 could be off to a difficult start if there is no resolution. listen to this bleak assessment from capitol hill. >> the future of the country rests in the hands of 70 and 80-year-olds who have jet lag it's probably not the best thing. >> could joe biden be the fix? he appears to be taking over for democrats after a counteroffer to prevent a big tax hike is met by silence. harry reid says democrats couldn't respond. >> there is still significant difference between the two sides but negotiations continue. there's still time left to reach an agreement and we intend to continue negotiations. >> i am willing to get this done but i need a dance partner. >> so the senate will try to work on this again later today and we are talking about something small here if anything a continuation of the busheir raw tax cuts for most americans and renewal of long-term unemployment benefits. but payroll taxes will probably go up tomorrow for everyone. that's a big hit for paychecks and sec quest tore autom
it's not just the tax hikes that are scheduled to hit it's big cuts in government spending as well. 2013 could be off to a difficult start if there is no resolution. listen to this bleak assessment from capitol hill. >> the future of the country rests in the hands of 70 and 80-year-olds who have jet lag it's probably not the best thing. >> could joe biden be the fix? he appears to be taking over for democrats after a counteroffer to prevent a big tax hike is met by silence. harry...
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we're going to grow the government with it. we're not going to reduce the deficit because we refuse to solve the bigger problems like saving medicare, insuring social security disability. we're not going to use that money to do anything except continue to grow the government. so the characterization is that we're-- what we're wanting to do is to make sure we have a dynamic economy, and i have no problems -- i've been out there for a long time with saying those that are making more ought to contribute more. but where does the money and g? and what do do you with the money? do you do something with the money that will actually get us further down the road and fix our ultimate long-term problem, which is we're bankrupt. and we went off the cliff two years ago when we covered 90% of our debt to g.d.p. and by the way, if you look at it the way of other country, our debt to g.d.p. is 120%, not 90%, not 100%, it's 120%. one last fact it's average greek citizen debt for their country is 36,000. we're at 51,000 per person in this countr
we're going to grow the government with it. we're not going to reduce the deficit because we refuse to solve the bigger problems like saving medicare, insuring social security disability. we're not going to use that money to do anything except continue to grow the government. so the characterization is that we're-- what we're wanting to do is to make sure we have a dynamic economy, and i have no problems -- i've been out there for a long time with saying those that are making more ought to...
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you keep saying the government is spending too much money. where are you going to get the dollars from? >> well, if you recall, this is columbine deja vu. we had this conversation right after columbine and the clinton administration very appropriately developed the cops in schools program in the justice department and in the past five or six years that -- and this crosses both administrations, it's not a political statement, the last five or six years across multiple congresses, congressional sessions, that money disappeared. even if you could afford -- and i support school resource officer programs. as a father, i can understand, every father would like, you know, a police officer in their school and many parents right now after sandy hook would like a one officer per kid, but my challenge and question is fund it now. if congress throws money when they come back in january at this, what are you doing for sustainability? and, don, you hit it in the head. five years from now, six years from now when the grants run out, how do you sustain that
you keep saying the government is spending too much money. where are you going to get the dollars from? >> well, if you recall, this is columbine deja vu. we had this conversation right after columbine and the clinton administration very appropriately developed the cops in schools program in the justice department and in the past five or six years that -- and this crosses both administrations, it's not a political statement, the last five or six years across multiple congresses,...
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they know the debt ceiling is the government saying they're going to stiff creditors. they're not going to pay bills, and americans don't like that. they don't want to spend any more than we can afford, but they want us to pay our bills. that's what people do in their homes. >> tell me how you think this is going to unfold on your side. the president had other considerations that are also valid, and i think it's going to be valid on mr. boehner's side. the republican congress knows that had he to put something on the floor and that are revenues were going to go up. they just don't want their fingerprints on it. there's going to be an enormous amount of republicans who want to vote no. he is in a bind. sfoo we talked about this before. this has been the least productive congress in history. it's certainly the most unpopular. i think the latest approval rating is something like 12%, and, you know, we talk about this triple threat, but there's a lot of other things on the pre president and congressional agenda. there are huge. things like immigration. things like the pres
they know the debt ceiling is the government saying they're going to stiff creditors. they're not going to pay bills, and americans don't like that. they don't want to spend any more than we can afford, but they want us to pay our bills. that's what people do in their homes. >> tell me how you think this is going to unfold on your side. the president had other considerations that are also valid, and i think it's going to be valid on mr. boehner's side. the republican congress knows that...
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however, some complain that is a foreign concept to our government. correspondent william la jeunesse explains the push for national yard sale. >> amtrak to vacant buildings like these in california many wonder if the federal government should sell what it doesn't need. >> so instead of raising taxes that takes money out of the economy and loafers activity, we should look to sell federal assets. >> empty v.a. hospital in los angeles for $5 billion or part of the water front former military base in san francisco. both cases, politicians said no. they want to make sure they are taken care of. sometimes it gets in way of what is best for the nation. >> federal government is america biggest landlord. selling 20% of the empty or underperforming buildings would save $2 billion. you go through and clear it out. it's a matter of scale. defense refused to sell valuable public land adjacent to fast-growing city. without charging royalties like we do for oil and natural gas. selling amtrak could net $60 billion. the tennessee authority and the power would bring
however, some complain that is a foreign concept to our government. correspondent william la jeunesse explains the push for national yard sale. >> amtrak to vacant buildings like these in california many wonder if the federal government should sell what it doesn't need. >> so instead of raising taxes that takes money out of the economy and loafers activity, we should look to sell federal assets. >> empty v.a. hospital in los angeles for $5 billion or part of the water front...
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, get 50% or more of their sales from government contracts. really interesting stuff. it's not just, again, defense companies. you're going to see waste management in there, an environmental company. motorola in there as well. we talked to fidelity. they are concerned as well telling amists to watch for certainly insexes -- indexes and others that cover financials and others cited there. adam: i have friends saying there's no fiscal cliff, it's make believe trumped up by the media and parties to scare people, get rate, and, perhaps bring about policy that's not true. look at the companies, the fact that the government -- look at the contracts that would be canceled, those are people who would lose jobs in several months. the recession that the cbo is legitimate looking at that list. >> that's right, adam. it's interesting because it flushes out what companies basically operate on the iron lung, with an iron lung, because of the government subsidies. it was interesting to me, the list of the companies that get so much of the revenues from the g
, get 50% or more of their sales from government contracts. really interesting stuff. it's not just, again, defense companies. you're going to see waste management in there, an environmental company. motorola in there as well. we talked to fidelity. they are concerned as well telling amists to watch for certainly insexes -- indexes and others that cover financials and others cited there. adam: i have friends saying there's no fiscal cliff, it's make believe trumped up by the media and parties...
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the government can still snoop on americans. the white house said the law provided vital to defending the country -- defending the country from terrorisms. >>> thousands of dollars of safety equipment that regulates alcohol sales. the department bought more than $70,000 worth of bullet resistant helmets and gas masks. they say it is essential to the safety of its agents, even though they are rarely exposed to gunfire. >>> 5 new driving laws go into effect tomorrow. drives arrested on suspicion of dui will have to give a blood sample and drives can show proof of insurance on a smartphone. and cars with a clean air vehicle sticker ride for free on toll lanes and the chp can activate silver alert and new standards for red light cameras. >>> you think santa might be taking time off but that is not the case. >> this is the annual racing santas. 1,000 santas raced through the streets. this year's theme, santa claus saves lives. they took donations that will go to shelts for -- shelts for elder -- shoulders for -- shelters for elderly.
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it's because the whole state was an insurrection from the government to to the statehouse itself statehouse itself down to the 11-year-old who were throwing bricks at us in the streets. it was total chaos, a little mayhem and even the mississippi highway patrol had pulled away so there was your insurrection. it lasted two or three days. the violent part of it and then after that i was appointed to be the security officer for james meredith and went to school with him, or he went to school and i stayed outside with a hand-picked patrol, 12 soldiers and we were there throughout the year. we transferred back and forth in the army was in place for almost a year until he graduated in august of 1963. i was 23 years old. i grew up in an all all-white neighborhood in south minneapolis. johnson, swanson, peterson and bergstrom and a few italians but that was pretty much it. it was an eye-opener for me but again, we were trained and i am so proud of what the army did. when you write a book, this was my first, the publisher has to say on what the title should be. i call the mississippi morning is when
it's because the whole state was an insurrection from the government to to the statehouse itself statehouse itself down to the 11-year-old who were throwing bricks at us in the streets. it was total chaos, a little mayhem and even the mississippi highway patrol had pulled away so there was your insurrection. it lasted two or three days. the violent part of it and then after that i was appointed to be the security officer for james meredith and went to school with him, or he went to school and i...
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we have a huge government. the average member of congress has about 2 seconds per year to think about how they spent each million dollars they spend. that's not enough time for them to analyze everything. so they end up passing laws they don't read. that causes huge problems of all sorts. i agree with you, that's a major problem. the housing problem, the financial crisis is really a problem caused by states and local governments. often state and local governments following trends, following planning fads' rather than doing what really works best for the american people, which is to let people choose how they want to live, how they want to get around, and pay for the cost of their. choices their but give them freedom of choice and let them do what they want. host: this is from wall street journal earlier this month -- guest: mental prices are on the rise in places that have land use restrictions like d.c., boston. they're not really on the rise in places that don't have land- use restrictions. in houston, the fa
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we can come back and fight the president over continuing funding for the government. we can come back and fight the president over any delayed cuts to the sequester that are temporary from this. republicans see that anything above 250,000 they get is essentially a victory for them, and they're more than happy to have these same type of cliff fights in 60 to 90 days. >> right. >> coming back for it. >> right. >> to the point that you just made, luke, is there a feeling -- because you do see a lot of irritation on the face of harry reid, and he is not a guy who shows a lot of emotion, but you do see some irritation there. is part of this by harry reid as well as liberal democrats that the white house essentially went around reid and got biden in there to make what they feel is a bad deal? >> well, i think there's probably -- i don't know if that's being for harry reid so much. i definitely know that is the opinion of some liberals in the house, but i've spoke to a member today who is pretty middle of the road centrist democrat, and he told me that he did not like the fa
we can come back and fight the president over continuing funding for the government. we can come back and fight the president over any delayed cuts to the sequester that are temporary from this. republicans see that anything above 250,000 they get is essentially a victory for them, and they're more than happy to have these same type of cliff fights in 60 to 90 days. >> right. >> coming back for it. >> right. >> to the point that you just made, luke, is there a feeling --...
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i'll tell you it's not a philosophical disagreement, it's a crisis of self-government. >>> a disturbing story out of new york tonight next. police are looking for a young woman who allegedly pushes a man onto the subway tracks when a train was approaching the station in queens. police have just identified the man as 46-year-old suendo sen of queens, new york. this is the second time in a month a passenger was pushed to his death in front of a train. it's raising some serious questions about the safety of the nation's largest subway system. >> it was -- it was horrible. horrible. it echoed through the bottom. i never want to hear something like that again. >> reporter: this man heard the final scream of the victim. james callanan's train was halted because of the incident. >> they said that this is the last stop on the 7 train. debris fell on the tracks. that's all they were telling people. >> reporter: witnesses say the victim was standing on the edge of this subway platform in queens when a woman who was pacing and talking to herself pushed him onto the tracks. the victim was a graphic
i'll tell you it's not a philosophical disagreement, it's a crisis of self-government. >>> a disturbing story out of new york tonight next. police are looking for a young woman who allegedly pushes a man onto the subway tracks when a train was approaching the station in queens. police have just identified the man as 46-year-old suendo sen of queens, new york. this is the second time in a month a passenger was pushed to his death in front of a train. it's raising some serious questions...
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but isn't it now time to govern? >> the president was absolutely out of line with his comments at 1:30 this afternoon. this is a delicate time in the negotiations. >> republicans suggesting there in this delicate time of negotiations the president may have turned off some republicans. we will see again whether or not senate republicans rank and file go along with their leader. it is a big deal that mitch mcconnell is expected to be voting for in. will his rank and file go along. more importantly in the days ahead will the rank and file on the house republican caucus go along. finally tonight will we see the president -- we are not expecting to see him tonight since this is not done-done yet. more likely we will see him tomorrow, bret. >> bret: 20 seconds here, ed, before we take another break. but is it a loss for this white house that the debt ceiling part of this is not included? >> there is no doubt they wanted it included in here. they were fighting for are it. so it is is a loss in it that is sense but they will
but isn't it now time to govern? >> the president was absolutely out of line with his comments at 1:30 this afternoon. this is a delicate time in the negotiations. >> republicans suggesting there in this delicate time of negotiations the president may have turned off some republicans. we will see again whether or not senate republicans rank and file go along with their leader. it is a big deal that mitch mcconnell is expected to be voting for in. will his rank and file go along....